Black box around sprites

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Black box around sprites

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Post by Flaminglacier » Fri Jul 04, 2014 8:56 pm

It appears that a lot of the monsters on realm 667 have transparency on the sprites which when loaded in XWE just converts the transparency into black. Is there anyway to have the sprite be transparent without having to open up every sprite in paint and adding cyan to the transparent parts?
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RE: Black box around sprites

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Post by Cruduxy » Fri Jul 04, 2014 9:03 pm

Thats just XWE's fail way to render png images, try in-game the sprites should look fine. actually if you make the transparent areas cyan you'll have to convert the image's to doom format.

Anyway why not use slade3 in this part of modding. XWE has no advantages over slade in this regard.
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RE: Black box around sprites

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Post by Flaminglacier » Fri Jul 04, 2014 9:38 pm

In game a black box appears. And I would use slade but the installation process is a drag.
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Post by Slim » Fri Jul 04, 2014 9:53 pm

Well, Slade's well worth the installation process. Since it does much more than XWE and can handle transparency no problem.
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RE: Black box around sprites

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Post by mr fiat » Fri Jul 04, 2014 10:28 pm

xwe'S development has halted years ago, as such it lacks support for modern stuff like PNGs and pk3 files. I know its hard to make the switch at first but it wil tottaly be worth it.

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Post by IMX » Fri Jul 04, 2014 11:04 pm

...You don't even need to install Slade, there's a ZIP download somewhere in their website.

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Post by -Jes- » Sat Jul 05, 2014 12:05 am

As everyone and their dog is saying; Get Slade, you won't be sorry.

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